Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev

Those of you who may have read my ColdFusion review will know that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Microsoft. They seem to have the knack of making products that people will accept (usually because they’re so widely distributed) even though there’s better stuff available. This opinion is about one competitor to a Microsoft product in the area of web design tools – Macromedia Dreamwever. I’ll hold up my hands right out of the gate and admit that most people will be more than happy to use a tool that comes bundled with their computers cos it’s free. DreamWeaver you’ll have to buy (unless you can thieve a copy from ...

I’ve used Macromedia Dreamweaver since version 1.0 and every time a new version is released, the software contains one single feature that makes everything easier as well as a bunch of pretty useless features that aren’t worth the price. Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultradev is basically Dreamweaver with a new “scripting” window that lets you compile ASP, JSP and ColdFusion code direct from the software, rather than using Notepad. As far as I’m concerned, that isn’t worth the £100+ upgrade price. The reason being that the wizards, behaviours and dialog boxes that come with Ultradev aren’t particurlaly powerful and create code ...

Dreamweaver Ultradev hey, so what's that then. Well its Dreamweaver 3, with its international claim as the BEST Web site builder, plus it does lots of nice Server Side Scripting whatnots. I won't go into Dreamweaver 3 here as its been covered by someone else and all the features of DW3 are present in Ultradev. Dreamweaver Ultradev came about because Macromedia wanted to get into this server side business as it is growing, massively. So it bought out a company who made a product called Drumbeat. Its now taken this Drumbeat technology and integrated it seamlessly into Dreamweaver Ultradev. So what's this Server Side Scripting malarkey? Well, at its ...